That night Cheryl dined alone. No one invited her to sit with them, none of her growing list of compatriots seemed to be around. And somehow, it was okay; on this, the third night of her four night package, she was for the first time feeling a little sated. That's not to say if an appealing man asked her to dance she'd say 'no,' but if it didn't happen, it was all right as well.
After dinner, she headed for the jazz club, was delighted to find Steve and Alexis there. A couple nights before they'd met here, Cheryl had been mildly attracted to them. They'd seemed relatively cautious and yet moderately experienced at the same time. She waved to the couple, Alexis invited her to sit with them on a couch, listen to the music.
"How have you been?" asked Steve.
"Good. And you guys? Alexis, you got a bit of a tan."
"The sun down here really burns you up, doesn't it? I put sunblock on at midnight last night!"
"You've been having fun?" Steve asked.
"My share," she agreed, and then she smiled, "and probably someone else's share, as well."
Alexis talked over Steve, who was sitting in the middle. "I can't believe what's happened down here. First there's the ocean and the pool and all that - we went snorkeling today - and then there's . . . well . . ."
"The sex?" Cheryl smirked.
"Yes. God. After we met you the other night, we were just sitting around and this great couple from New York came over. It was just all around attraction, we went over to their room and . . . Unfortunately, it was their last night here, but we got their email, so you never know. Maybe we'll see the Rockettes next Christmas. And then we went to the bar with the loud rock music last night, have you been there? Well, we started chatting with this single guy and I said what the hell, so we invited him to the room. He and I went for a couple of hours, Steve's got some really good videos." Cheryl thought that Alexis, this cute little blond, was both shy and proud at the same time. "How about you?"
Cheryl mentally reviewed her sins of the past three days, wondered if they were too personal to confide with this couple. But, at the same time, Alexis seemed only too eager to reveal her indiscretions (and of her husband) so why not. And Cheryl found she wanted to brag.
"Well, let's see," she started. "Wednesday when I got down here, I was lying on the beach, and this really great guy, Wes, picked me up, I invited him into my room. At 5:00 in the afternoon! Later that night I found a single guy, but he was a bit of a dud.
"Yesterday, I went catamaraning with Wes and his wife and we went around the headland and they knew a reef where we went snorkeling. Then, they invited me back to their room and we had a threesome."
"With you and another girl?" Alexis asked, less than innocently.
"Yep. Then last night I bumped into this group, two guys and a girl. They all live together, she's in love with both of them. They have one of those overwater bungalows and we swam in the ocean late at night." Cheryl quickly decided not to tell about giving a blow job to the man at the pool, it just seemed way too whorish.
"Today, I went over to PassionnΓ© Island."
"Was it great?" Alexis excitedly interrupted.
"Fantastic! I met a couple of young guys, college students actually, and we body surfed."
Steve broke out into a loud guffaw. "That may be the best entendre I've ever heard! I'm trying to get Alexis to go over there."
"I'm not sure I want to be completely nude with a whole bunch of people around."
"It's not like that at all," Cheryl explained. "For all the land there, there's not many people. And there's no law that says you have to go nude there, I guess you could keep your bottoms on if you wanted to."
"Alexis hasn't even taken her top off in public yet. I keep telling her she should, she's got great tits!"
Cheryl glanced at the other woman's bosom, she was leaning forward in her sundress and the fabric swept around her cleavage. She looked fairly small but quite shapely inside the built in bra. Quickly, Cheryl felt a flicker of desire, wondered what they would feel like.
The band played one of Alexis' favorite tunes. "Dance with me, Steve," she pleaded.
"You know I'm a terrible dancer."
"I'll dance with you," Cheryl volunteered.
A quick look from the other woman. Was it caution? Rejection? Desire? "All right."
The two women approached the tiny dance floor, not the only couple, not even the only pair of women. They settled together, and after a few minutes Cheryl felt Alexis' body tight against hers. "I envy you," Alexis said, "You're my hero."
"Now why do you say that?"
"Well, you told us you came down here to get into trouble, and you just went and did it. You have so much confidence. I'd love to do something like that, but I'm much too cautious."
"Well, the guys just keep throwing themselves at me," Cheryl laughed.
Alexis reached up, intimately slid a strand of hair from Cheryl's face, then looked deep into her eyes. Cheryl knew what was coming, wanted it, but let Alexis take the lead. There on the dance floor, they stood and kissed, woman to woman. Slow, a modicum of tongue, and then it was over. They walked back, hand in hand to the couch.
Alexis nervously sipped her drink, flustered at how forward she'd been.
A couple of minutes later, Steve asked, "Do you have trouble sleeping down here? I do, the sounds are just weird."
"The first night I did, but when I finally drop off, I sleep like a baby. And I found a pretty good sleeping aid."
"What's that?"
"There's this lovely little swimming pool back by the tennis courts, just a few feet from the bay. I go over there and have a late night swim. It's quite relaxing to float, completely bare. I don't know how I'm going to replicate that back in Dayton."